Sat.Jun 10, 2023 - Fri.Jun 16, 2023

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Innovation Should Serve People, Not The Other Way Around

Digital Tonto

These days, innovation has become, far too often, solipsistic and self-referential, pursued for the glory of the innovators themselves rather than for the benefit of anyone else and there is increasing evidence the venture-funded entrepreneurship model is crowding out more productive investments. We need to move away from hype and focus on impact. Because digital technology has become so pervasive, offering a substantial architecture that lends itself to tweaking, we’ve lost the plot.

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Four Keys to Effective Team Communication

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from David Burkus Communication is what makes a team a team. Otherwise, it’s just a group of individuals working away at their desks, handing work up to some unnamed boss. In reality, people don’t work in a vacuum. And much of one individual’s work requires coordinating with one or more teams.

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How AI Will Accelerate the Circular Economy

Harvard Business Review

Despite living on a planet with finite resources, our economy remains largely linear and full of single-use products. The shift toward a circular economy, where companies recover or recycle resources, has hit roadblocks, including low value of used products and high recycling costs. Harvard’s D^3 Institute recently highlighted how digital tools and AI can help overcome these hurdles.

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The Final Perspective: A Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework

Paul Hobcraft

In my view any new approach to innovation needs to aim to achieve interdependent and interlocking innovation, solving problems that have not been addressed before and offering sustainable value, impact, and returns to all involved or significantly improving on the existing solutions. Today we are missing a comprehensive structure or innovation process to achieve this, we need a radically different approach to managing innovation.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Supply Chain Innovation: Building Efficient and Resilient Organizations

Viima

In recent decades the globalized economy and increased international trade have expanded supply chains across the globe, which unavoidably has brought about new dependencies. These new dependencies come with both significant benefits and risks, creating unforeseen weaknesses The COVID-19 pandemic exposed those vulnerabilities in dramatic fashion, showing that organizations simply were not prepared to bounce back from such disruptions.

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Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon: Why we see things everywhere once we see them once

Idea to Value

Have you ever wondered why sometimes after seeing or experiencing something for the first time, you end up seeing it happening everywhere? Or when you get interested in something, you end up noticing that everyone seems to be talking about it? This may be down to the Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon , or Frequency Illusion , a cognitive bias we all suffer from.

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The Potential Returns of the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework

Paul Hobcraft

I proposed a new Framework for managing innovation this week, called the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework. This is approaching innovation and its management in more of a holistic, technology-enabled way based on the use of a cloud-enabled Platform and Ecosystem thinking and design. The thrust of the framework is “ Organizations can create a more comprehensive and effective innovation ecosystem by utilizing building blocks as components of the innovation stack, guiding platform de

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Will AI Replace the Front Office in Pro Sports?

Harvard Business Review

With accurate player-availability predictions for all active players, AI-powered decision-making is dramatically improved around three dimensions: 1) Risk management: If a productive wide-receiver is likely to get hurt, for example, a team might invest more in talented backups, to minimize drop-off in team performance during injury. 2) Training and targeted interventions: If AI suggests a player is injury-prone, teams can target that player with customized training, nutrition, or other regimens

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Bandwagon effect: Why people want to follow the crowd

Idea to Value

Does it make sense to just follow the crowd? Well, sometimes it could end up leading you to make bad decisions, just because everyone else thinks it is a good idea. The bandwagon effect is a cognitive bias where people adopt certain behaviors, styles, or attitudes simply because others are doing so. It is due to humans being a social species where it makes sense to be part of the group , and therefore not wanting to risk that belonging by doing something the rest of the group is not doing.

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Elevating Executive Engagement by Embracing Empowerment and Emotional Intelligence

Tullio Siragusa

Elevating Executive Engagement by Embracing Empowerment and Emotional Intelligence In the business world, stepping into a new leadership role often presents a labyrinth of challenges. One of the most critical yet complex tasks is to effectively engage the executive team, ensuring that they are aligned with your vision and are committed to achieving shared objectives.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Building Up to the Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework Validation

Paul Hobcraft

On Monday 12th June 2023 I made a proposal that innovation is in need of a radical redesign. The post was my “ The Final Perspective: A Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework “ This recommendation had been built out over the past three months toward this final conclusion. Here I want to summarize the posts that were part of this build-up, that build the compelling business case for the need to change our thinking about innovation.

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Women in Leadership Face Ageism at Every Age

Harvard Business Review

Originally, ageism was understood to be prejudice, stereotypes, and discriminatory behavior targeted at older employees. But with an increasingly diverse and multigenerational workforce, age bias now occurs across the career life cycle — especially for women. “Youngism” refers to ageism toward younger adults, fueled by the conflation of age with maturity and the misperception that tenure is required for competency.

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The necessity of market creating innovations

Christensen Institute

There is no doubt that we live in an age of abundance. Superabundance even. If you have any doubt, please read Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley’s masterpiece, Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet. Tupy and Pooley provide strong evidence of how much progress the world has made over the past few hundred years, spurred largely by innovation.

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Reflect, Learn, Act: How Planview Honors Juneteenth 

Planview

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865. It’s the day that federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce that all enslaved people were freed — two years after the Emancipation Proclamation officially declared the end of slavery in the United States. The message of Juneteenth honors a legacy of not giving up hope in uncertain times and strives to help hope live on.

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How To Select the Right Software for Innovation Management

Finding the right innovation management software is like picking a racing bike—it's essential to consider your unique needs rather than just flashy features. This oversight can stall your innovation efforts. Download now to explore key considerations for success!

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5 techniques to prioritize your product features

Sopheon

Here are five techniques to help you decide which features and ideas should go into your product backlog, from evaluating and prioritizing ideas based on potential customer satisfaction to likelihood to maximise ROI.

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When Your Boss Gives You Bad Feedback, Badly

Harvard Business Review

It’s difficult to manage your feelings when getting feedback that feels too harsh, overly nice, or somehow dishonest. We all struggle with feedback, so extend a little grace to yourself for having strong emotions, and to the other person for initiating a difficult conversation. The authors present the three most common ways people deliver feedback in a way that causes harm and elicits strong emotions, as well as five key steps to take when you get poorly delivered feedback.

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Introducing the Market-Creating Innovation Bootcamp for Policymakers

Christensen Institute

Market-creating innovations transform complicated and expensive products into simple and affordable ones so more people in society can access them. These innovations have the potential to unlock wealth for the masses, and in doing so can significantly accelerate economic development. In short, market creating innovations are necessary to create prosperity.

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From Automation to Augmented Reality: 12 Transformative Technology Trends Revolutionizing the Manufacturing Industry

Daniel Burrus

The manufacturing industry plays a crucial role in producing components for automobiles, electronics, medical devices, machinery, and other systems. These components bring ideas to life, transforming them into tangible products. Consider the device you are using to read this article – it likely contains both internal and external manufactured components.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro

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How Entrepreneurs Can Keep Up With Industry Demands While Nurturing a Skilled Workforce

Entrepreneur - Innovation

By implementing effective strategies, building strong partnerships, embracing technology and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, entrepreneurs can ensure the success of their training programs.

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How to Scale Local Innovations in Big Companies

Harvard Business Review

All too often innovations — including new products, new HR policies to attract and retain talent, and new production processes —developed in one part of a business stay there. Other groups that could benefit from them don’t know they exist. This leads to lost revenues and higher costs, since teams around the world often end up duplicating (or triplicating, or quadruplicating) investments in solving common problems.

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Innovators in Action: “Humankindness” at CommonSpirit Health

Christensen Institute

Today’s guest post comes from Nisha Pasupuleti, System Director of Transformative Strategy, Population Health at CommonSpirit Health. She would also like to thank Anuradhika Anuradhika, System VP of Innovation, and Brisa Hernandez, System Director of Operations at the Lloyd H. Dean Institute for Humankindness & Health Justice, for their support.

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Customer Service is Like Being Married

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken The buying cycle for a customer typically includes a little research, talking to a salesperson, making the purchase, and whatever happens after the sale.

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Driving Responsible Innovation: How to Navigate AI Governance & Data Privacy

Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.

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Congrats to Our Webinar Presenters Named to a Top 50 Thought Leaders List!

Kainexus

Our own Mark Graban was on this list (Top 50 thought leaders in operational excellence for 2023) along with five other thought leaders who have participated in our webinar series. Congratulations to all of them! And to everybody on this esteemed list.

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What Is Apple’s Vision Pro Really For?

Harvard Business Review

To understand the value of Apple’s new goggles, it’s helpful to think about how virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) correspond to two fundamental tasks in decision making. VR presents new information; AR distills information from an existing environment. But previous headsets and internet-enabled glasses haven’t tapped into the potential for either of these in a decision-making context.

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Post-COVID, cramming edtech in schools goes wild

Christensen Institute

That technology allowed instruction to continue for many as COVID shuttered schools is no longer surprising—although, a mere two decades ago, it would have passed for science fiction. What’s surprised many, however, is how sticky the education technology has become as schools have reopened. In a recent piece for The74 , for example, Conor Williams, a fellow at The Century Foundation, describes how after having visited nearly 100 classrooms in three states over six months, digital learning is ev

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Basketball, Banks and Banana Splits

Innovation Excellence

Is failure everywhere? GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton When asked to describe his test for determining what is and isn’t hard-core pornography, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart responded, “I know it when I see it.” In that sense, pornography and failure may have a lot in common.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Giving and Receiving Intense Criticism and Feedback

Phil McKinney

Criticism has always been associated with failure and rejection. However, for successful innovators, criticism is the key to their success. Subjecting one's ideas to intense criticism may seem counterintuitive, but it is essential in creating innovative solutions. And as innovators, inventors, leaders, and executives, we all know that ideas are crucial for any breakthrough.

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A Game Plan for Funding Carbon Offsets

Harvard Business Review

The most common types of carbon offsets are nature-based offsets such as forests. Unfortunately, while emissions remain in the atmosphere around 1,000 years, possibly longer, a tree can only remove carbon for its lifespan of 10o or so years, which means a forest planted as a carbon offset must be maintained with trees replanted at least ten times to match the emission it is offsetting.

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Generative AI can Augment Creativity

InnovationManagement

One of the co-founders of IdeaScale, Josh Folk, (disclosure: I am CEO of IdeaScale) recently co-authored a front page article published in the Harvard Business Review, describing how the explosion of generative AI can be used to augment human creativity and productivity. Here's the full article link at HBR. To practice what I preach about [.] The post Generative AI can Augment Creativity appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Generation AI Replacing Generation Z

Innovation Excellence

by Braden Kelley The boundary lines between different named generations are a bit fuzzy but the goal should always be to draw the boundary at an event significant enough to create substantial behavior changes in the new generation worthy of consideration in strategy formation.

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How to Master Product Portfolio Management

Pursuing product portfolio management excellence empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their offerings. This comprehensive guide unveils 10 essential keys that serve as the building blocks for success.